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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

dryas

, pl.

dryades

, Gr. [GREEK], pl. [GREEK], fr. [GREEK] oak, tree. See

(Class. Myth.)

A wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree.

Noun.

[L., Gr., a tree.] In mythology, a deity or nymph of the woods; a nymph supposed to preside over woods.